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The Marxist theory of historical materialism sees human society as fundamentally determined at any given time by the ''material conditions''—in other words, the relationships which people have with each other in order to fulfil basic needs such as feeding, clothing, and housing themselves and their families.〔See, in particular, (Marx and Engels, ''The German Ideology'' )〕 Overall, Marx and Engels claimed to have identified five successive stages of the development of these material conditions in Western Europe. In contrast to many of his followers, Marx made no claim to have produced a master key to history, but rather considered his work a concrete study of the actual conditions that pertained in Europe. As he put it, historical materialism is not "an historico-philosophic theory of the ''marche generale'' imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself."〔 Marx, Karl: Letter to the editor of the Russian magazine ''Otetchestvennye Zapisky'', 1877. 〕 ==Private property== The Marxist concept of private property gives the basis for Marx's theory. "Private property" in the terminology of Marx's time, for Marx himself, and for Marxists sometimes today, does not mean the simple possessions of a person, but the ownership of ''productive'' property or property which produces a profit for the owner,〔 〕 such as corporate ownership, share ownership, land ownership, and—in the case of slave society—slave ownership (since slaves work the land, mines and other means of producing the material means of existence). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marx's theory of history」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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